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woke up slightly earlier than usual as it seems to have lots of things to do. mom complained that she 3 got pails of clothes to wash and ask me to iron my own clothes...

Ladies and Gentlemen...
Presenting... The World's First Guy who sit down to iron clothes and watch opera.

The aunties helping out with the preparation of food...



hm... tot there is a no-chilly fish reserve for me... dont know where it goes...
So... wat had i been doing... er... will let u know once i recall any...

Richard was talking abt his fruit juice maker the whole night! He kept telling us that its his brother's and its an import, etc... I counted that he had repeating that few sentences for N times...
Joke of the month... Ms Tan thought it is an automatic mixer... Her defination of auto is... no need to switch on the switch, the mixer can auto mix!

We were having singing session and some friendly games in the room. and our little guy here can still sleep in such noisy room...

Richard had started the fire at abt 6pm so that we can call it a day early.

Dinner time!!! Where my share!

money management

i was listening to radio a few days ago when the DJ talks abt this topic.

they asked listeners to call in to ask them if they are Yue Guang Zhu (Month Empty Gang).

there are this group of listeners whose household earning are abt $8k-12k (2 parents). they admit they are part of this gang. actually i was quite surprise. they said they paying installment for the cars, house, children education, etc.

the funny thing is another group of listeners also said they managed to save a bit but their income is abt $4k-6k! The difference is about half lor! how could this be?
The latter also paying for house, kids. Maybe not the car. But the difference is so big lor. weird right?

For me, i am also a YGZ.
4 yrs ago, i only took home $800+ for my first job. i still managed to find money for my insurance, my studies.

But as i got more, i found that my expenses also increase. my accounts is always divided into 2 accounts: normal expenses eg food and transport and ex-ordinary expenses such as opera fees, sch fees, share losses, etc

For normal expenses, there is an increase of more than 20%! Maybe at that time, i only eat 2 meals outside. Now i eating 3. hm... maybe i should consider GST hehehe...

i normally close 1 eye for ex-ordinary expenses as they are extra-ordinary mah. only came once in a while mah. Eg if u go overseas to travel, surely u wont say 'i not going to spend!' else u go oversea for wat? go there see how round their moon is?

So... does it mean, e more u earn, the more u spend? or u juz not earning enough.

modern wbc

juz woke up from a dream juz now...

a Nanjing family got 3 sisters, jin chuan, yin chuan and bao chuan, were borned in Boxer Revolution period.

their father, a official in Court, received news that the Boxers are coming in their direction and decided to flee. They packed all their things and ran out of their house. Never would they expect the Boxers' Arrival.

In the end, the family was torn apart... BC and her parents were separated. Luckily for her, as she fled, she met a beggar call Pinggui (who else).

When the war was over, the family tried to return to their house but it was badly burnt. BC and PG had fled to a nearby provience. The family decided to move house.

Every anniversary of the day their family was torn apart, BC and PG would go the badly burnt house and to try to find her family but to all vain. The family also tried to go back find BC but their timing just wasnt good.

18 yrs later, PG became a news reporter. He thought of helping his wife and put an article to search her family.
BC's father saw the article and immediately went to find PG in the newsroom, who brought him to see BC.

The family was finally united...

imperalism

was reading an article in the papers asking if it is necessary for imperialism to be in present or to be abolished.

the article saying that since the world practise democracy, imperialism should be abolished as the king is only a figure head.

1) if the king is to be abolished as it is a figure head, then the presidents should also be abolished... Y? Only US president has a say world event. the other presidents just smile smile and take their wages.

2) the one in control of govt are prime ministers or premiers. Premiers are appointed by the king, on recommendation of the cabinets. so is the PM. Not all PMs are elected by the ppl... althought the members of parliament or house are elected by the ppl but this doesnt means the ppl elect the PM. So y should the word democracy be used.

Overall, i still support imperialism in place. Although its just a formalty, but its still a tradition...

If u dont know, there is an Act in our Law call Queen's Eliz's Act... saying the Queen is our head but she approved our independent... something like tat...

feng shen ban ii

pai seh... no blog for the few days.

i was busy watching the show. but its a new version compare to the first. the 1 i watching is recently filmed with a bit of animation.

this ver is also longer with a stronger crew. i think i dont like is: this ver does not follow 100% to the original story.

i was wondering something. feng shen ban, as everyone know is a story of gods fighting. but it seems that every generals in the stories are scare to be part of the rank.

a few generals keep saying 'y dont u quit and return to your cave? if u continue to fight, its likely that ur name is in the ban.'

although its a fight between two taoist sects, Chan and Jie, but all are part of the heavenly rank. of cos, not all are well known and worshipped.

bonus survey

there is a survey regarding the above matter.

72% of the people not happy with their bonus. hm... i am also included in this 72% group. Hey! boss earn a lot lor...

difference between company and sole propertieor is that SP took all money. but company could make loss.
if company make loss, its understandable but SP sure earn money one lor... and he only give so little... sian... hopefully, there is an increase in june...

opera vs gf

er... i say first hor... NO gf til now

but this question just came to my mind. if i had a gf, who will get the priority?
esp if there is a show coming, there will be extra classes on all weekends and some weekdays.

of cos if there is someone who is e the same troupe or someone who also support art, there is no big issue. but if its 1 who dont leh...

i think mk mentioned once that she rather marry opera.

hm... then a question came in... how come all opera artists then to prefer to this art than other option.
Well... if there is an occupation call full-time normal-rate paid with cpf opera artists job, i think all of u will pick this job rather than ur current job right...

movie

Finally...
I finally went to the cinema to watch movie. hahaa...

after being a movie NATO, i finally went for a show. Wanted to watch 'just follow law' but it started by the time i get there. i dont like to watch shows with no head no tail. so i watched Music and Lyrics instead.

i not a movie reviewer so... dont ask me to comment.

The last show i watched is er... forgot the title liao but its with 1 of my blog reader in PS. ya lah. no need to think... its u... hehehee

i think it must be at least 1 yr liao bah. there are tons of shows which i wanted to watch but i seems to be lazy to walk into the cinema without ppl companying.

Most of the time, its either everyone not free or the show not nice. Well, sometimes its not bad to go to the cinema to relax by myself.

Anyone wanna go for a show next month? i considering Mr Bean ;)

IT Show 07

was at the IT Show on thu - sun except sat.

was only interested in 2 items: hp n camera.
i already planned to touch my reserve if there is a good bargain ;-]

thur - went there after work. the crowd was not really there whereby i manage to walk the 2 levels of showrooms.

fri - forgot to do comparsion for the camera, but hack it lah... i already know what i want... juz went there for fun. Guess what i found! They giving more freebies!!!

sat - was requested to bring a braised duck. Hm... i only know most places sell roasted but not braised. Did some internet search on fri night, saying that Tiong Bahru / Outram got good ducks and planned there to buy but mom said she working OT and ask me to housework instead. No choice... But the time i finished, its already 12pm.

情报 said Clementi got 1 nice stall. Went there but i dont seem to find the place. *faint*
Took Bus 7 to Holland Village but i think everyone dont like me lor.. All sold out 1... I was running late. If u know my style, i normally go there earlier than most ppl. I started to panick, luckily managed to get 1 when i reached Holland Road market.
I was relieved when comments said that it was not bad.

sun - met some pri sch mates and went together. The mountain was so high that quite a few routes had been blocked to maintain the flow
Weijie got a Sony T100, i got Olympus FE230.
they threw me 2Gb memory, total of 3 batteries! Poor jie... he was quite jealous abt it...
I estimated abt at least 200,000 went there today for final day. Most ppl, like me, go there pick cheapo...

next month need to save for hp liao... any recommendation?

attacks

suffered a few attacks this week.

1. Main issue is shares what else. i made an error in my projection. i tried to do a contra with my wife capital but suffered $2k contra loss due to the sales. luckily, a purchase 3 yr ago soften my loss. in the end, only earn a bit. i am determined to win back that 2k! hope the economic crashes soon.

so... what does this means? my tw trip delay lor! my camera delay lor... my 3G hp also delay lor!!! wat u expect? 2k leh!!! i not considering my cheap selling as my loss. i only consider that 2k as my loss. (hp abt 300, camera abt 850, balance air ticket with some hotel stay n sleep on street in tw)

jeremy lost $1.6k + 1 more contra yet done. potential loss of $2k+ also. unless the share he wanted to contra go up by 6 cents tomorrow else he will lose abt $900. if he passed the test, he will earn er.. $200? (not including the 1.6k loss)
that guy play shares without capital...

2. there is some problems in work. accountants send things to us without management approval.

in the end, management scold auditors for having weird balances in the accounts. i am very pissed off with it lor.

3. on 1 side, some friends ask me to help them search for job or having job vancies in their office asking me to find ppl. on the other side, i seemed to put up a very big mark in my name :p

so wat am i 忠? 奸？ must work hard to change the view of these friends!!!

Good news!!! i am at Ep 15 of Kimi liao!!!

earthquake

first time i experience earthquake.

i was standing by the metal shelf when it happened.
i thought i was leading against wooden unstable shelf when it happened.
then i saw the shelf shaking. my lady boss and jeremy were shaky as they were sitting on the chair.

after the temour, my boss said he was not feeling well but he added that he ate breakfast already. He asked jeremy to call the management to see if there is any construction work done nearby...
i told them its an earthquake and started msg-ing ppl to confirm this. Replies came in from high rise offices.

about 2pm, the second shake occurred. This time, i was chatting with jeremy. But it was not as bad as the 1st.

No matter what, we complained of dizzy. I was hoping that boss call it a day but no leh... sian...

week over

this week is finally over.

i been having class everyday except wed! as usual, i slept in all classes. the start of the coming week means i be busy with project again.

hopefully, i can find my annual report which i left in office and use the summary report for my reference...

tax YA 07

I think only 2 or 3 of the readers are interested in this.

If you are a singaporean who earned $26,000 or less in 2006, and were not taxable after claiming personal reliefs, basically u need not file.

The relief available:
Earned income relief - Below 55yr old - $1,000

Wife/handicapped spouse relief - For spouse not earning more than $2,000

Child relief - $2,000 for below 16 yrs old

Parents/handicapped parents relief - The dependant was 55 years of age or above or was physically or mentally disabled. The dependant's annual income did not exceed $2,000.

Provident fund/life insurance relief - Max $5,000

Course fees relief - Max $3,500 RELATED TO YOUR JOB, opera not included

Relief for foreign maid levy - For MARRIED woman only, max $4,800

NSmen Relief - NSman with ICT $3,000.
NSman w/o ICT $1,500.
For KAH, additional tax relief $2,000
Tax Relief For Wife / Mother Of NSmen - $750
Tax Relief For Parents Of NSmen - $750

Any income more than that or if u wish to claim taxed dividends, pls do your filing.
http://www.iras.gov.sg/ESVPortal/resources/worksheet_ya2007.zip